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bushels of barley to each part, keeping them entirely distinct. 

 The grass seed was clover and fine top. It was threshed by 

 Kilbrcth, and yielded thirteen bushels each — not varying in 

 measure one pint. 



The third year, 1860, 1 mowed the piece, which was mostly 

 clover, the 5th of July. On No. 1, there was 1,314 pounds ; on 

 No. 2. 1,006 pounds. August 16th, mowed again. On No. 1, 

 there were 605 pounds ; on No. 2, 416 pounds. 



Statement of Nahum Snell. 



To the committee on experimenting on one acre of land, 

 No. 13 in Agricultural Proceedings of 1858, in which the society 

 offers a premium for the best experiment for three crops in suc- 

 cession, to be awarded in 1861. As the three crops have all 

 been gathered, weighed and measured, it is as convenient to 

 send in the result of the same at this time as ever. 



The acre of land that I have experimented upon was light, 

 warm loam, in sward. I spread seventeen loads upon half an 

 acre, and ploughed the same ; then ploughed half an acre and 

 spread on the same quantity. Harrowed the whole thoroughly, 

 then furrowed the same, putting seven loads upon each half 

 acre, and planted the whole on the 14th of May, 1858. On tbe 

 7th of October, Mr. Howland, the supervisor, measured one 

 rod where the manure was ploughed under the sod, which 

 weighed forty-five and one-half pounds ; the rod where the 

 manure was spread weighed forty-two and one-half pounds. 

 On the 20th of October the whole acre was weighed, — the half 

 acre where the manure was spread and ploughed under meas- 

 uring, in the ear, seventy-six bushels, and weighed 3,086 pounds ; 

 the half acre where spread on the surface measured seventy-seven 

 bushels, and weighed 3,120 pounds ; which, by adding eighty- 

 eight pounds on two rods carried home by the supervisor, makes 

 the whole weight at harvest 6,303 pounds. The whole acre of 

 corn, shelled on the 1st of January, 1850, measured — reckoning 

 fifty-six pounds to the bushel — sixty-eight and twenty-six fifty- 

 sixths bushels, leaving a gain of forty-three pounds upon the 

 half acre where the manure was spread upon the surface. 



April 22d, 1859, sowed three and one-half bushels of four- 

 rowed barley, in equal parts, and sowed the same in grass. 



